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2012-0301-01
Environment
posted:2014/05/21
Design process management technology for sustainable buildings
TAKAGUCHI, Hiroto Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering)
Analyzing the building design process using a DSM (Design Structure Matrix) and suggesting an optimized design allows the improvement of the current design process. Furthermore, it enables organization of the matters to be considered when introducing a new technology into a bu...
2012-0220-01
Energy
posted:2014/05/21
Technology that uses numerical calculation to elucidate the internal transport mechanism inside lithium ion batteries
KUSAKA, Jin Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering)
Using a lithium ion battery for HEV (hybrid electric vehicle), designed using a general-purpose numerical calculation software program BDS (Battery Design Studio), simulations of “constant current experiments on actual equipment” can be implemented. From the charge/discharge c...
2012-0217-01
Environment
posted:2014/05/21
Socio-scientific research into administrative processes of environmental policies
YOSHIDA, Tokuhisa Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering) (retired)
Policies, statutes, environmental science and technology, public opinion, reports in mass media and interests are being examined in a unified manner, and the methods below used to conduct empirical analyses. Results have been obtained in research on themes relating to the admi...
2011-1031-01
Life sciences
Manufacturing Technology
posted:2014/05/21
Biofeedback-type perception support robot technology for cognitive-neuro rehabilitation
IWATA, Hiroyasu Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering)
Accumulation of developmental knowledge and clinical data on perception support robot technology (RT) to aid in the rehabilitation of hemiplegic patients. A mechanism devised for communicating the ground conditions under the paralyzed foot to the healthy side by a unit that di...
2011-1028-01
Life sciences
posted:2014/05/21
Elucidating the mechanisms of intrahepatic metabolism control and disease caused by its failure
GODA, Nobuhito Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
We have findings about the central molecule involved in the low-oxygen response mechanism in cells, hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)-1. We discovered that failure in this response in hepatic parenchymal cells leads to the onset and development of alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatt...
2011-1027-01
Life sciences
posted:2014/05/21
Artificial red blood cell production method
SAKAI, Hiromi Guest Senior Researcher (Research Council (Research Organization) Organization for University Research Initiatives) (retired)
Production method for artificial red blood cells with the hemoglobin that binds to oxygen encapsulated in a lipid membrane.Demonstrated benefits include: (a) No blood types, (b) viruses and other infection sources are removed, (c) stable at room temperature for at least two ye...
2011-0930-01
Life sciences
posted:2014/05/21
Drug development based on collagen
KOIDE, Takaki Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
●Supramolecular materials having collagen-like triple-helical structure●Library of collagen-like triple-helical peptides (approximately 800 types)●Screening methods for collagen biological polymer bonding inhibitor compounds: (establishment of 384-well plate, high-throughput s...
2011-0929-01
Social Infrastructure
posted:2014/05/21
Earthquake reconstruction and protection of living heritage from the perspective of Islamic architectural history in India
FUKAMI, Naoko Part-time Lecturer (Research Council (Research Organization) Organization for Islamic Area Studies) (retired)
We learned about the mapmaking in Bhadreshwar, Mundra, Kutch District in the state of Gujarat, India (plane table survey), its community classification under religion and the caste system, and the architectural assets remaining from an era when the region flourished through In...
2011-0928-01
Information Communication
posted:2014/05/21
Highly efficient development technology for highly reliable software systems
WASHIZAKI, Hironori Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Fundamental Science and Engineering)
In order to prevent trouble from occurring in advance, it is vital to improve reliability. Software development goes through multiple stages from basic design to installation, and reliability is gradually lost along the process. To counter this are efforts to improve the relia...
2011-0922-02
Information Communication
posted:2014/05/21
Methods and equipment for detecting and visualizing level of attention in videos
SHIMIZU, Sota Guest Researcher (Faculty of Science and Engineering Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering) (retired)
This invention involves a method for quantitating details on the viewer during playback, such as “what parts does the viewer tend to look at” and their “level of attention” (existing eye movement measuring devices are also used), and methods, equipment and systems for visualiz...
2011-0922-04
Manufacturing Technology
posted:2014/05/21
Liquid crystal wide-angle fovea lenses
SHIMIZU, Sota Guest Researcher (Faculty of Science and Engineering Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering) (retired)
We are currently working to develop liquid crystal wide-angle fovea lenses, by adapting elements using liquid crystal materials, whose refraction index can be controlled by an externally applied voltage, to enable changes in magnification and the position of the focus (single ...
2011-0922-03
Nanotechnology / Materials
posted:2014/05/21
Development of electrode materials and electrolytes for secondary batteries
MOMMA, Toshiyuki Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Advanced Science and Engineering)
Manufacture of secondary batteries using Li2S, formed using S as a byproduct of the petroleum refining process as the positive electrodes material.
2011-0922-01
Energy
posted:2014/05/21
Development of energy control techniques for the realization of a smart grid
HAYASHI, Yasuhiro Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Advanced Science and Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience)
Advanced methodologies will be developed through computer simulations and next-generation smart grid simulations, in order to enable total design of a suitable next-generation electrical energy supply configuration by which both of the above can be achieved continuously.
2011-0921-03
Information Communication
posted:2014/05/21
Parallelization of multimedia applications (MPEG2 encoders and decoders) by using the OSCAR compiler
KIMURA, Keiji Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Fundamental Science and Engineering)
By using parallelization on a macroblock level in the MPEG2 encoding process, and by using parallelization on a slice level as well as macroblock parallelization in slice processing, it is possible to decrease power consumption as well as improve speed.
2011-0921-02
Information Communication
posted:2014/05/21
Method for speeding up simulations for assessing many-core performance
KIMURA, Keiji Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Fundamental Science and Engineering)
In many-core processors, parallelized programs are executed successively, and from the loops subject to sampling, an estimable interation number for the entire execution cycle is specified within the scope of errors expected based on statistical techniques. By carrying out det...
2011-0921-01
Social Infrastructure
posted:2014/05/21
Change in population and society in Northeast China
HANAI, Miwa Part-time Lecturer (Faculty of Social Sciences School of Social Sciences)
In order to strengthen the competitiveness of the Chaoxianzu who live in Northeast China, as a people in the country, unique efforts are being made in terms of education in particular. At Yanbian University for example, there is much enthusiasm not only for Korean and Chinese ...
2011-0920-03
Environment
posted:2014/05/21
Constructing a process for recycling valuable resources from waste
TOKORO, Chiharu Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering)
A low-environmental-load type valuables recycling process can be proposed, in which, after various types of pulverization are conducted as preprocessing, a number of separation methods are combined, based on specific weight, electrical and magnetic properties, wettability, sha...
2011-0920-02
Environment
posted:2014/05/21
Optimization of pulverization and physical separation technology by powder simulation
TOKORO, Chiharu Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering)
It is possible to use a certain type of powder simulation, the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to ascertain in detail, the positions and speeds of each particle in the apparatus, and collision energies between particles and between particles and the walls.
2011-0920-01
Environment
posted:2014/05/21
Accelerating environmental cleanup processes
TOKORO, Chiharu Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering)
Through detailed solid analysis techniques, including XAFS, and geochemical simulations involving surface complex models and reaction kinetics, it is possible to construct optimal processing processes and set conditions, according to the respective contamination conditions. In...
2011-0920-04
Energy
posted:2014/05/21
Energy-saving and environmental techniques that use vapor compression heat pumps
AMANO, Yoshiharu Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)
We have been conducting research and development into revolutionary energy-saving vapor compression and condensation (VCC) technologies that compress vapor produced in the evaporation process, and continually recover condensation latent heat to reuse in evaporation; the theore...